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Katie Woolf spoke with Salvatores Cafe owner Shaun · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: On the line right now is Sean, who is the
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  Speaker 1: owner of Salvatore's Cafe in the city. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Sean, Good morning, Katie, thank you so.
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  Speaker 1: Much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a sales pretty disturbed when I saw a
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  Speaker 1: vision come out, I believe it was overnight or I
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  Speaker 1: certainly just saw it this morning, but from New York
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  Speaker 1: cafe of a huge group of young people well just
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  Speaker 1: sort of being very disrespectful and running a mark in
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  Speaker 1: the city.
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  Speaker 2: They were That was about seven thirty last night, But
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  Speaker 2: I think they they're normally around a little bit, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not the first time we've seen them, and it's
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  Speaker 2: the same group. Within the group of twelve last night,
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  Speaker 2: there would be six of them at least that are
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  Speaker 2: normally around, causing disturbances, stealing from shops, harassing people in
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  Speaker 2: the CBD, whether it's at shops or just people around city,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. So they're not new to us,
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  Speaker 2: and the police know who they are.
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  Speaker 1: And so what were they doing? What were they doing
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  Speaker 1: yesterday exactly, Sean.
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  Speaker 2: So last night we'd written some take. We got those
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  Speaker 2: little menu boards on top of our table, so we
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  Speaker 2: went outside and said, look, we have our menu boards backers.
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  Speaker 2: No one need to touch them. And they said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't take them, he was just I said, now
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  Speaker 2: I saw you on the video night you grabbed them off,
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  Speaker 2: and YadA, YadA YadA. Then the kids started mouthing off,
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  Speaker 2: telling us that you know, touch me, touch me, go on,
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  Speaker 2: touch me, and I said, I don't need to touch you.
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  Speaker 2: I just want my menu boards back. Yes, And there
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  Speaker 2: was other tourists and a couple of locals that I
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  Speaker 2: knew were saying to them, this is disgusting behavior. The
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  Speaker 2: vial that was coming out of them and the threats,
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  Speaker 2: and the tourists couldn't believe it. They said, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, these are, unfortunately some delinquents that we
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with. And then as they made their
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  Speaker 2: way down the street, they started throwing their McDonald's coffee,
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  Speaker 2: the drink cups I guess, of cocing things back towards
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  Speaker 2: all of us and hitting a few people. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just as I said, we know who they are, as
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  Speaker 2: the police know who they are, but there's not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of power apparently to be able to deal with
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  Speaker 2: these lots.
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  Speaker 1: Sean, what kind of impact does it have for you?
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  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to the everyday running of
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  Speaker 1: your business, when you're having to deal with this condess.
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  Speaker 2: We do have to be outside as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: There's a video on our Facebook page about I think
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  Speaker 2: it's about a year ago of a couple in that
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  Speaker 2: group trying to snatch a bag off someone just sitting
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  Speaker 2: on a table minding their own business. So we don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the answer is. The kids obviously have some
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  Speaker 2: idea what their powers are. The police have told me
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  Speaker 2: we're permitted to physically protect ourselves, protect our business, protect
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  Speaker 2: others that might be in trouble, as long as we're
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  Speaker 2: appropriate with the amount of force that we use is appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: But really, I mean, they're kids, and what do you
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  Speaker 2: do with the kid. I'm six foot two and some
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  Speaker 2: of these kids are four foot nothing, and so it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't take much to be inappropriate, I suppose. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the solution is. And I know the
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  Speaker 2: police are very sympathetic. They would love to do whatever
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  Speaker 2: we can do. But I have a feeling that as
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  Speaker 2: a community we need to make changes and what we
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  Speaker 2: deem appropriate. And what I kept saying before the last
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  Speaker 2: election is ask your politician, what are you going to
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  Speaker 2: do today. I'm all about diverse and I think we've
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  Speaker 2: got to do something. What are we doing today? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And Sean taking that into account, I mean, what is
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  Speaker 1: your message for the government, What is your message for
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  Speaker 1: our elected leaders? At this point? You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: think about what you are dealing with, even like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone trying to sit down and have something
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  Speaker 1: to eat and somebody attempting to steal their bag.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. So I'm on very good terms with Paul
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  Speaker 2: Arnold and conbut stylists and Paul Kirby, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to reach out to them and say, listen, boys, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you want to do something. I'm sure you want
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  Speaker 2: our community to be a lot. We've done so much
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  Speaker 2: to beautify it and improve it. This is undoing it.
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  Speaker 2: So let's all sit down and let's say, listen, what
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  Speaker 2: are we going to do. Let's invite the police and
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  Speaker 2: they say what what? What's our goal? What are we
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  Speaker 2: going to do here to clean this up and make
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  Speaker 2: our city what it should be. It's a beautiful city.
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  Speaker 2: Some nights it is so lovely here and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: to be here. But when this sort of stuff happens,
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  Speaker 2: we just got to look at ourselves and say, what
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  Speaker 2: are we doing? Yeah, why can't we stop? This is
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  Speaker 2: such a problem that we can solve. Why aren't we
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  Speaker 2: doing that? Well?
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  Speaker 1: And we have for anybody out there listening who does
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  Speaker 1: want to see what unfolded last night. That video that
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  Speaker 1: you shed on the Salvatore's page, we've just shed it
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  Speaker 1: on the Mixed page as well, so people can get
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a better idea, you know, Sewan, Even
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit earlier, we caught up with the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Mayor and I did ask him about whether he
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  Speaker 1: was aware of this situation, but he also spoke about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even the palm trees at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the mall near Pass Paley, they're having the you know,
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  Speaker 1: having the wires cut on the fairy lights, and you
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  Speaker 1: just go, why why, you know, why can't they just
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  Speaker 1: do the right thing by each other?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. And look, we do see a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of that. And look even the other day, probably another problem.
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  Speaker 2: There was a young lady of this group who had
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  Speaker 2: one of those aerosol can and she was sniffing it
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  Speaker 2: and I stopped them, and I wasn't rude to them.
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  Speaker 2: I said, listen, you know, you shouldn't be doing that.
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  Speaker 2: That's really bad. And they just told me to get lost.
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  Speaker 2: It's none of my business, and I said, it is
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  Speaker 2: my business. You're right on my corner. You're walking past
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  Speaker 2: the things out me open, you're sniffing it. Yeah, come on,
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  Speaker 2: and your friends should be telling you this is really
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  Speaker 2: bad for yourself, and they're telling me that knock off.
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  Speaker 2: It's none of my business. And I know there's people
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  Speaker 2: in the community that do care. We do try, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like the mayor with his lights. We do try, but
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  Speaker 2: we just don't understand. How do we fix this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And you know, I think that you hit the
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  Speaker 1: nail on the head earlier when you said we as
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  Speaker 1: a community do need to stand up and say that
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  Speaker 1: it's not acceptable. And I think that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: are all saying that. But then when you watch this
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  Speaker 1: vision and you see this kitty looks buddy young, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing something, and you just think, oh, come.
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  Speaker 2: On, exactly, And like I said, you know, like yourself, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: we're a lot bigger and a lot smarter than that.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to get started into that sort of behavior.
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  Speaker 2: But how do we fix it? Yeah? And I don't
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  Speaker 2: have all the answers. I hate going with a problem
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  Speaker 2: without an answer. We may have to look at some
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  Speaker 2: other places how they fix it, but we need to
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  Speaker 2: do something because this is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean, I really appreciate your time this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're a busy man with a wonderful local business,
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  Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you taking the time to have
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  Speaker 1: a chat with me.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thanks for reaching out.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and that number if you are kean to
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  Speaker 1: call through this morning eight nine four one one four nine.
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  Speaker 1: And we have just shed that vision up on the
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  Speaker 1: mixed one oh four nine Facebook page. Joanne said, why
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  Speaker 1: would they care? They get away with earth? Where are
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  Speaker 1: all the politicians and members mentioned in this? Dan said,
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  Speaker 1: that's disgusting behavior, but they know that there's no consequences.
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  Speaker 1: But as you've heard there, as Sean had said, I
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  Speaker 1: think we are all as a community, we are all
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  Speaker 1: pretty sick of this kind of thing. And it does
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  Speaker 1: look like even in this vision, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 1: other adults there trying to tell them, don't behave that way,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that, and trying to tell them to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stop what they're doing and move on. But then you know,
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  Speaker 1: even where you can see a woman sort of trying
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  Speaker 1: to talk to these kids and say stop it. They
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  Speaker 1: then continue throwing things and behaving in a manner which
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  Speaker 1: is totally unacceptable